Wednesday 6th October 2010 ~ Calm Restored

37571 at Walton Road, Walsoken at lunchtime. JB was the chauffeur and unusually for him, it was running 10 minutes late.

After yesterdays disastrous morning, normality resumed today. It seems a long while since we had a total low floor day and one suspects that by the close of the year we may just have reached double figures on this count. 20121 continued its charmed life with use on K3 and 20107 - what an amazing vehicle it is ! - was used on L8. This is normally a B9 duty, but such is the reliability of 107 currently, it repeated its feat of September 27th and worked the duty throughout.
The rest of the service was worked by the usual combination of B9 Geminis assisted by the B7s. Not at work on the route today were 37564, which instead worked the 10.38 X2 from Lowestoft and 37575 which was stopped at Lynn for modifications. B7 37157 which is extremely noisy at the moment did K14 and 37160 off a service worked K5. This left 37158/9 in use locally at Lynn and over at lowestoft Michael B reports 37156 again in use on the X2, this time working the 10.38 to Norwich and meaning that two consecutive turns on this route were Geminis. Strange then that 'The Beast' was used in preference on L8.
Punctuality was good today, but there was a blip in the middle of the day when 37573 on K17 ran exactly 30 minutes late from Lynn in the times of K18 to Peterborough. The real K18 was 37579 and this didn't work the western section.